Surrey Hundreds - Making grandmasters from the bottom-up. Run by International Master Mike Basman. This is based on the division of society around 1086. Players are allocated titles and ranks in accordance with their performance in the field of battle - in this case of the chess board. There are seven titles: Champion, Lord, Thegn, Villager, Bordar, Cottar and Slave. The Lords were tenants in chief, and could also be members of the church - bishops. The Thegns were the fighting men. It was estimated that it required one hide (approximately 120 acres) to maintain a fighting man. The Villagers (or Villeins) were tied to the land. They could not leave without the permission of their lord. Nonetheless, they held a position of importance, for they were in charge of a large area of land - on average a virgate (about 30 acres). Next down were the Bordars, equivalent to small holders. Below them came Cottars who would live in a small property with, perhaps, a garden. Finally came the slaves who were in increasingly short supply and gradually faded out in a couple of centuries after 1086. The divisions were not entirely rigid and in parts of England there were also Sokemen or freemen. These were smallholders who actually owned their land and 'could go where they pleased'. But as they were prevalent in places like Lincolnshire, Norfolk and Essex - parts of the earlier Danelaw - but not elsewhere in England, I have not included them in the basic structure.

••• Feudal Grading System	Wallington Results

WALLINGTON HUNDRED CHESS TOURNAMENT 2nd NOVEMBER 02
RESULTS
First	Surname	Sex	School/Town	Pts	Title	Rank
U7
Kavita	Appulingam	G	Devonshire/St Marks S of C	4.5	Champion	6
Rahul	Shah	B	Homefield	4	Thegn	8
Aaron	Wade	B	Homefield	3.5	Villager	9
Robert	Simmons	B	Homefield	2	Bordar	10
Arun	Veerappan	B	Homefield	2	Bordar	10
Ramrai	Puvinathan	B	Homefield	0	Slave	12
U8
Alexander	Jelicic	B	Homefield	5	Champion	5
John	Erskine	B	Homefield	3.5	Villager	8
Thomas	Middleton	B	St Dunstans	3.5	Villager	8
Caspian	Heeler	B	Devonshire	3	Villager	8
Daniel	Kliger	B	Homefield	3	Villager	8
Henry	Greenhalgh	B	Homefield	2	Bordar	9
Haroon	Taylor	B	Homefield	2	Bordar	9
Ashley	Gopee	B	Barrow Hedges	1.5	Cottar	10
Jonathan	Gwynne	B	Homefield	1.5	Cottar	10
U9
Damir	Rafi	B	Homefield	5	Champion	4
Shoya	Fujita	B	St Marks S of C	4	Thegn	6
Rebecca	Atkinson	G	Old Palace/St Marks S of C	3	Villager	7
Harjas	Shinmar	B	Homefield Prep	3	Villager	7
Matthew	Hassett	B	Barrow Hedges	3	Villager	7
Charlie	Osborne	B	Woodcote Jr	3	Villager	7
Sam	Gardner	B	Homefield	2.5	Bordar	8
Timothy	Jones	B	All Saints, Benhill	2	Bordar	8
Jerome	Peterpaul	B	Devonshire	2	Bordar	8
Alice	Beeson	G	Benhilton	1.5	Cottar	9
Daniel	Hunt	B	Barrow Hedges	1	Cottar	9
Sultan	Ijaz	B	Priory	0	Slave	10
U10
Priyam	Patel	B	Priory	4.5	Champion	3
Nicholas	Hutton	B	St Dunstans	4	Thegn	5
Christina	Maddock	G	Devonshire/St Marks S of C	4	Thegn	5
Matthew	Sowe	B	St Annes	4	Thegn	5
Oliver	Lindop	B	St Dunstans	3.5	Villager	6
Graeme	Clarke	B	St Annes	3	Villager	6
Marcus	Eales	B	Homefield	3	Villager	6
William	Gonsalves	B	Homefield	3	Villager	6
Christopher	Hogg	B	Benhilton	3	Villager	6
Thomas	Ladyman	B	Benhilton	3	Villager	6
James	Lindop	B	St Dunstans	3	Villager	6
Rohan	Singhal	B	Homefield	3	Villager	6
James	Argent	B	Warren Mead	2.5	Bordar	7
Felix	Greenhalgh	B	Homefield	2.5	Bordar	7
Timothy	Eales	B	Homefield	2	Bordar	7
Wilson	Lou	B	Barrow Hedges	2	Bordar	7
Marie	McCallum	G	Ridgeway Priory	2	Bordar	7
Mark	Paton-Thomas	B	Homefield	1.5	Cottar	8
Elizabeth	Randall	G	The Avenue	1.5	Cottar	8
Bethany	Downing	G	St Dunstans	1	Cottar	8
Danyial	Gilani	B	Barrow Hedges	1	Cottar	8
Vincent	Liao	B	Barrow Hedges	1	Cottar	8
Caroline	Paton-Thomas	G	Sutton High	1	Cottar	8
Shivam	Patel	B	St Davids Purley
RiChampionrd	Seevratnam	B	Woodcote Jr
Alex	Smith	B	St Dunstans
Thomas	Tawse	B	St Davids Purley
U11
Lawrence	Tsang	B	Whitgift	4.5	Lord	2
Robert	Silverstone	B	Whitgift	4	Thegn	3
Thomas	Eliasz	B	Devonshire Priory	3	Villager	5
Ben	Scully	B	Stanley Park Jr	3	Villager	5
Matthew	Walker	B	Barrow Hedges	3	Villager	5
Matthew	Brennan	B	Stanley Park Jr	2	Bordar	6
Adam	Macdonald	B	Atwood, Sanderstead	2	Bordar	6
Alex	Underwood	B	Atwood, Sanderstead	2	Bordar	6
Jay	Patel	B	St Davids	1.5	Cottar	7
Jack	Sadler	B	Rokeby	0	Slave	8
U14/U18/ADULT NOVICE
Stefan	Mahadevan	B	Wallington Gr	4	Champion	1
Michael	Rogan	B	Wilsons	4	Thegn	3
Jonathan	Tsang	B	Whitgift	4	Thegn	3
Maiyuran	Ratneswaran	B	Whitgift	3	Villager	4
Nicola	Smith	G	Greenacre	3	Villager	4
Lawrence	Hanesworth	B	Trinity	2.5	Bordar	5
Alec	Beeson	B	Sutton Grammar	2	Bordar	5
Philip	Maddock		Adult	1.5	Champion	6
Jerome	Greenhalgh	B	Homefield	1	Cottar	6